Trade Ideas Optimized AI Results vs $SPY as of December 4, 2015

Here’ s the results of Holly, Trade Ideas’ name given to its machines learning artificial intelligence, for the week that ended December 4, 2015. For those not clear on what Holly does, the technology hunts for stock and option patterns, backtests, optimizes, and then matches which resulting algorithms are best suited to the current market…

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Stock Scanning to Make Opportunity Out of the Market’s Traps

Here’s the beginning of a correspondence with Dr. Brett Steenbarger who wisely suggested that the exchange would make for a good blog post. That’s why he’s the PhD. From the Desk of Trade Ideas March 24, 2010 Dear Brett, I just read your quick post regarding the “traps” the market can play on intraday traders…

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Scan for Pattern Rotations, In Addition to Sectors

Many traders and educators talk about catching sector rotations – when money moves from one industry to another. Capitalizing on this kind of capital movement can make for great trades. Sometimes it’s difficult to ascertain what is moving. Additionally industry leaders may indeed begin moving, but laggards may not. Another way to think of rotations…

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Trade-Ideas Version of Gainers & Losers: Latest from Support Forum

Some recent posts in the Trade-Ideas Unofficial Support Forum contain interesting strategies – this one asks about Gainers & Losers. REQUEST: How to set to get top Gainers and Losers alert for stocks with, min price$5, max price$20,daily average volume is 1.000.000 and min current volume is 250.000 SET-UP: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=44601712 We also delivered several new…

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The Market Sneezes, but Trade Ideas Never Catches a Cold: Data Variances

Editor’s Note: The following post is from our Chief Technical Officer, Philip Smolen. In it he points to a rather frequent occurrence of the data inconsistencies that plague the tape and which, if left unchecked or not addressed, can seriously affect real-time sensitive tools like Trade Ideas. Fortunately for us and for those of you…

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How Twitter Improves My Trades – A Dummy Makes A Comeback

Using Twitters helps my feel for the markets and satisfies my sense of community with fellow traders. Specifically I use Twitter: to contribute to the conversation among those I follow and those who follow me.  I do this by taking advantage of the ample resources Trade-Ideas makes available to the trading community at https://trade-ideas.54solutions.com/StockInfo/ For instance…

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Benefits from Unemotionally Trading Your Plan

There isn’t much to add to this example of a trader’s breakthrough in sticking to the trade plan.  Too often and too easily a trader jumps in to change course and deviate from a pre-determined course of action within a trade – and the result is almost always suboptimal.  In fact one of the worst…

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It’s the Pattern, Not the Stock that Makes the Mad Money

Disclaimer: The article mentioned below mentions Trade-Ideas as an ‘industry standard’ and sprinkles a bit more praise on us but was written unsolicited by a former trader, Dave Goodboy, turned writer for TradingMarkets.com and other outlets. “How To Use A Stock Screener” Goodboy’s article addresses the most basic of scanner and screener tools available to…

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